DEFINITE PANAMA OFFER.
Continued from first pa«r.
this country to take over the uncompleted Pana
ma Canal could have been reached long: ago.
Admiral Walker and his associates fixed the
value to this country of the French property at
M 0.000.000, and there is excellent reason for as
serting that if M. Hutin had been more direct In
his methods and definite in his propositions the
"Walker commission in its last report would have
recommendc-d the purchase, and thus put an end
to all dispute as to routes. While the admiral
refuses to discuss the matter in detail. it is
evident from his manner that he and his asso
ciates are considerably irritated by the popular
misconstruction that has been put upon their
last report. The average person in and out of
Congress seems to think that the Walker com
mission has denounced the Panama route as im
practicable, and, therefore, unworthy of. consid
eration by this country. The commission, on the
contrary, has made a careful and painstaking
comparison of both routes after the most ex
haustive engineering and personal investigation
of every mile along which the canals have been
projected, and a close study of its last report re
veals the interesting, but apparently little
known, fact that in some essentials the Panama
route is more highly commended by these of
ficers of the United States than is that of Nic
aragua.
COMMISSION SAID TO FAVOR PANAMA.
Admiral Walker, who has been all over both
routes, seems more favorably impressed with
the Panama than with the Nicaragua route. He
believes the natural harbor facilities at both
ends of the Panama route are vastly superior to
those at either terminus of the Nicaragua route,
and he repards as of no small advantage in fa
vor of the Panama route that the tide action,
particularly on the p&ciflc side of the Panama
route, is more favorable to canal construction
and maintenance than can be asserted of this
physical feature of the Nicaragua route. He
says the Panama Canal could be completed by
the T'nited States for about $143,000,000. Add
to this the $40,000,000 which would be paid to
the French shareholders for their property, and
as« a matter of economy there would be an actual
paving of (6.000,000 in construction, as compare, l
•with the isain;a.te of $189,000,000 for the Nica
ragua Canal A feature of Kteat weipht with
those who have closely studied the question is
that the estimated cost of the Nicaragua Canal
at the figures stated Is probably many millions
below what that work would cost the govern-
Snent before its completion.
AGREEMENT WITH NICARAGUA.
'FEATURES OF THE PROTOCOL SIGNED AT
MANAGUA.
Washington, Jan. 3. — Some of the main feat
ures of the protocol between the United States
end Nicaragua] referred to in President Zelaya's
;roessage to his/ Congress have been made known
in recent press dispatches from Managua, but
there are many other Important features which
, Slave not yet been disclosed, one of these being
the complete American jurisdiction and the es
jtablishment of American courts, civil and crim
ilnal, throughout a zone six miles wide and ex
tending from ocean to ocean, and including the
'proposed termini. Greytown on the Atlantic,
end. Brito on the Pacific. The entire policing of
this large tract also is placed in the hands of
•the United States, so that It has the power to
preserve order and after that to issue judicial
processes extending throughout this zone.
Besides the authority of American courts and
»f the American police In the six-mile zone, the
chief features of the protocol are in giving a
lease In perpetuity of this tract to the United
States and at the same time giving an Ameri
can guarantee that the Independence, sov
ereignty and integrity of Nicaragua shall not
be disturbed by the rights thus conferred on the
United States.
No exact information is obtainable as to the
price specified in the protocol as payment to
JClcaragua for the grant to this country. It can
be said positively, however, that this price is
much less than was expected when the negotia
tions began, and that It is considered by of
ficials as reasonable. It is understood that at
the outset- the view in Nicaragua was that $■-(>.-
OOGOOO would be a proper figure for the grant
to this country and about $5,000,000 for Costa
Rica's grant. But while there is no informa
tion as to the final sum in the protocol, it is
known to be far short of the above figures. As
the cession takes the form of a perpetual lease,
i it is probable that the protocol includes the
I feature of an annual rental as part payment.
A protocol with Costa Rica identical In form
with that with Nicaragua, except in the matter
of price and territory leased, has been in course
of negotiation, and it is understood that a satis
factory conclusion will be reached with that
government.
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR TT. F. COCERAX
fT IS HELD IN HOLLYWOOD OT ANXEX, TTHICH
HE WAS TO DEDICATE XEXT "WEEK.
Hollywood Inn last night was the scene of an
Impressive service in memory of William Francis
<Cochran. the philanthropist, founder and first presi
dent of the institution erected by him. for the benefit
of the workingmen of Yonkerß. Mr. Cochran died
cm last Friday after a short illness.
The room in which the exercises were held was
In the new annex of the inn. which was to be dedi
cated next week by Mr. Cochran and Bishop Potter.
Last night was the first time that the public was
admitted. Instead of meeting the living founder
It was to pay silent tribute to his memory. The
gathering was composed of representative citizens
as well as of those from the workshops. The Rev.
'James K. email, of St. Andrew's Memorial
Cl'urch, erect by Mr. Cochran. presided. The
music consisted of hymns and anthems sung by
the choirs of St. Andrew's and St. John's churches.
The prayer was offered by the Rev. A. F. Underhlll,
and addresses were made by William Allen Butler,
the Rev. Charles K. Allison. John W. Oliver, John
•V. Brennan. Charles E. Gorton, the Rev. E. A.
2jycn and Dr. David Cole.
FOR THE REDEMPTIOX OF THE CITY.
The Federation of Churches is arranging for a
(four day conference on "The Redemption of the
City," In which church and charitable workers
will unite, in the Broadway Tabernacle In the last
'•week la January.. There will be morning, after
noon- and evening sessions, and the topics to be
discussed will be of interest to the workers of all
creeds and charities.
The general outline of the programme will treat
of 'The Field." "Forces for Good and Evil," "Alms
and Method?," and among the epecial subjects
• are "Religious Conditions in New- York." "ft cent
: Immigration Into the City." "The Influence of
Housing on Civic Betterment," "The Influence of
Industrial Conditions on Habits and Morals "
'"Crime in the City and the Duty of the Churches."
•■"The Characteristics of the Leading Foreign Na
tionalities and Work Among Them." "The Institu
tional Churches, ** "Modern Kdueatlon In Its Rela
tion to Religion," "Federation in Its Relation to
Civic Reform." "The Settlements," "The Need and
Possibilities of Comity and Co-operation in the Bet
terment of the City" and "The Work of the Protes
tant, the Catholic and Hebrew Charities." The full
programme -will be given out next week.
Yon want to know what projrremi hn-n been
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tell you. For wale at ni nmlrnli'm' every
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WILLIAM H. KIMBALL RESIGNS.
Albany, Jan. ".—William H. Kfmhall, of Xrw-
Tork CJty, has resigned as treasurer of tho Man
hattan State Hospital, the resignation to take ef
fect January 10. K. J. Hunirerford. assistant tr. as
urer, has Y,een de-signated to porfortn temporarily
tae duties of the office
Hard Colds
Hard colds nearly always
lead to something serious.
They run into chronic bron
chitis, pneumonia, consump
tion. Doctors know this.
That's why they so generally
approve of Ayer's Cherry Pec
toral. They tell us they can
not prescribe anything that
cures coughs so quickly.
"Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cured my daughter
a very bad cough after we bad tried about
iverytiiing cisc without relief."— E. B. Davis,
Providence, k. I.
*&c. «Oc.. $1.00. . J. CMTER CO.. Ltwell, Mul,
JUMPS FROM ELEVATED ROAD
NEGRO WHO TRIES TO ESCAPE FROM
DETECTIVE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
WITH BROKEN ANKLE.
Detective Kammer, attached to the West
Sixty-eigbth-st. station, will long remember the
chase he had yesterday after Henry Goddin,
nineteen years old, colored, of No. 211 West
Sixtieth- st.
William Sperb, Jr., thf proprietor of a market
at Bev,-nty-fourth-st. and Broadway, was so
licited by Goddin some time ago to place his
advertisement in "The Railroad Porters' Maga
zine." Bperb agreed to advertise, and gave
Goddin a half tone cut to place in his adver
tlsentent. Time passed and Goddin did not re
turn with the cut. Then Sperb went to the
West SWty-eißhth-st. station and asked that
Goddin be found and made to pive up the cut.
Detective Kammer yesterday saw Goddin in a
store in upper Broadway. The negro said that If
Kammer would go with him tn the West Side
court and speak to the complaint clerk there,
who is alpo colored, the latter would inform the
detective that he (CSoddin) was all risht. The
two went to the West Side court. At the door
Goddin turned suddenly and ran away.
The detective started after the negro. Alons
Fifty-fourth»-Bt. the men ran, then turned into
Eighth-aye. Goddin ran up to the Fifty-rhlrd
st. station at the elevated road. When the de
tective reached the platform the fugitive jumped
down between the tracks, barely escaping an
engine, ami ran along the elevated structure.
The detertive, after a little, began to pain on
Goddin, and the latter, seeing this, stopped in
his diffht, ::i"i without hesitation jumped to
tin street below, a distance of about twenty feet.
Kammer slid down a pillar and found the negro
unconscious.
Goddin. at Roosevelt Hospital, was found to
have a fractured ankle.
Yon vrnnt to knon- vrl«o in president of ft
certain ooll«-*r«-; Turn to The Trllinne Al
manac-. For Mir nt iipnudrnlrrii' every where,
or !•» mall, (or 2f> rriiln per Copy*
SHOCKED TO DEATH IX THE AIR.
FIVK THOUSAND VOT.T3 PASS THROTGH
LINEMAN'S BODY WHEN HE GRABS
WIRE TO STOP FAT..L..
Samuel HarMpr. twenty-seven years old, a line
man in the employ of the Westehester I-ißhtinp
Company, was shocked to death yesterday on top
of an electric Iluht pole In Pelhmn Road and Cen
trc-ave.. New-Rochelle. Five thousand volts of
electricity passed through his body. The acldent
was seen ly several other linemen and a number
of people who live In the street One of them, Mrs.
William H. Pitt, who was standing at her window,
fainted from the shock, and is now under the care
of her physician.
The oead man was a Swede, and boarded at No.
SI North Terrace-aye.. Mount Vernon. He was
assisting in stringing wires alons Pelham Road.
Me sipped, and to save himself from falling ho
grabbed a Us copper light wire that wa.s fairly
humming with electricity. Harbig held the wir-'
with both hands, rind thus completed a short oir
i- lit. The other linemen heard a cry of pain, and
on looking ui> beheld Harbig'fl body smoking and
gyrating on the wire, it hung twitching for several
seconds and then fell to the ground.
GENERAL DI CBSNOLA'S BBBVAJTTB FIGHT.
THE I^AT'NDnESS r-HARORs TlfK BUTL.BR WITH
BITING HER— BOTH ARE COLORED.
Joseph Bryant and Delia Richardson, the butler
nnd Hiiniirrss. respectively. In the home of General
Louis P. di Cesnola, at No. XX East Fifty-ninth-st..
were In the Yorkville Court yesterday, the former
to answer a charge of assault made by the Rich
ardson woman. i<oth persons are colored, and are
unusually large. IJryant weighs about 2."0 pounds
and the woman nearly 2DO pounds.
According to Rryant he has received Instrurtlons
from General Di Cesnola to keep the laundrtss out
of the dining room. Yesterday morning, he says,
he found her in that room handling the morning
mail. Rryant ordered her to leave the place, and
Hhe struck him on the head with a silver tray and
with a .-hina cup, be alleges. The woman told the
magistrate that she had simply been obeying in
■trucUoofl from th<- wife of her employer and th.it
Fh<> had a right to look at the mail. "1I<: almost bit
me to pieces." said the complainant, ".lust look at
my hands. And he insulted me-, too." The woman's
hands wre bruised, and there were teeth marks
which, she alleges, wore Indicted by Bryant when
be endeavored to put her out of the dining room.
Magistrate Pool hold Bryant In $2wi ball for an
other examination to-day, when the General will ba
there to testify.
Yon want to know the exact date of Preni
dent MeKinley'n rienth? See The Tribune
Almanac. ' ••• Male m npnurirnlirii' every
where, or by mail, for -.'. cent* per copy.
TERYL PREBTON ///.<? OWX COUNSEL.
STEEL MAN WHOSE LEG WAS BROKEN IN' AUTO
MOBILE ACCIDENT ACQUITTED OF CHARGE
OF EXCEEDING LAWFUL SPEED.
Very" Preston, of No. 532 Fifth-aye., a director
of the American Steel Hoop Company, who was
injured In an automobile accident at Yonkera
on December 21, in which two young women were
also hurt, was acquitted in the Court of Special
Sessions yesterday of the charge of running his
machine faster than the law allows.
Policeman McEntee, of the bicycle squad, ar
rested Mr. Preston on December 15. at Seventh
ave. and Twenty-ninth-st. The officer said Mr.
Preston was running his automobile south at a
high rate of speed, and Magistrate Cornell, in Jef
ferson Market Police Court, held Mr. Preston for
Special Sessions. The defendant appeared in his
own defence.
"I do not believe that I ' exceeded the legal
speed," he said to the justices. "I came down
Seventh-aye. from the stables, and Intended turn
ing east Into Thirtieth-st. to get a friend of mine
at the Holland House. I could not turn In time
to get into Thirtleth-st., and at Twenty-nlnth-st.
this officer arrested me. There were no rif?H in
Seventh-aye. at the time." Policeman McEntec's
testimony lacked corroboration.
Ay OTHER BIG GUSTIER.
TWO WEUJI WITH AN AOOREOATR CAPACITY OF
400,000 HAIUIEI.S A DAY.
Beaumont. Jan. 3. 1&02 (Special).— The Texas Oil
and Pipe I.mo Company has just brought In an
other gusher fully equal to its 200,000 barrels a day
gusher brought in about two months ago, which
was then the greatest oil well In the world. Gusher
No. 2 has a 12-inch pipe down 7<to feet and an 8-lncli
pipe all the way to the oil sand, and this enormous
capacity is thus secured, as most or the wells have
much smaller pipe. These two wells are located at
different points in the gusher field, about 900 feet
apart, and, with an aggregate capacity of 400,000
barrels a day, guarantee an unlimited supply of oil,
and demonstrate the fact that the Texas oil field In
practically inexhaustible. The enormous production
of these wells can be appreciated when it is re
membered that the entire output of all the oil wells
in the world last year was only about 400.00U barrels
a day, or an amount just equal to the capacity of
these two wells.
The company which brought in these two big
w.lls is rapidly maturing Us plans lor marketing
this immense oil production, stud has chartered the
tank steamer "Major Barrett," which will make
regular trips between Port Arthur and New-York
delivering oil on large contracts which have been
secured. This will be the first tank steamer to
reach Northern ports loaded with Texas oil for
actual consumption as fuel, and marks an Impor
tant steji In the development of this new industry.
The enormous production of tho wells and tho high
fuel value of the oil make it practically certain
that it will revolutionize the fuel question on the
Atlantic and Gulf ports.
CORKISH WITNESS AGAIXST EMPLOYES.
Harry Cornish, who while connected with tho
Knickerbocker Athletic Club was one of the) prin
cipal witnesses against Roland B. Mollneux, was
in the Jefferson Market police court yesterday as a
witness against two men charged with attempted
burglary. The prisoners were Ralph Gillesple and
George Ormshy. of Xn. 2n West One-hundred-and
twenty-fourth-st., employes of the American Bread
Company, of which Cornish Is a manager. They
were arrested on the charge of trying to break into
the American Bread Company store at No. 615
Slxth-ave. early on New Year's Eve. Glllespl« said
that it was a drunken freak, and Magistrate Olm-
Bted discharged them.
DENIED BY MR. YAXDERLIP.
Private dispatches from Chicago saying that Sec
retary Gage would organize an International bank
ing house in this city upon his retirement from the
Cabinet were denied yesterday by Frank A. Van
derllp, whose name had b»en mentioned in con
nection with Lbc -■ h f - ■■
YORK DAIXY TRTBTXE. SATtTRD2Or. JA3T7AKT 4. 1902.
EVERETT-MOORE AFFAIRS.
LESS ALARM IN CLEVELAND OVER THE
SYNDICATE'S DIFFICULTIES — THE
BUN ON THE DIME RANK STOPPED.
[BY TEt.RC.RArH TO THH TKII'.rNE.J
Cleveland, Ohio. Jan. ".—Business interests
have quieted down from the alarm felt yesjer
day when the announcement was made of the
Everett-Moore syndicate trouble, and the run
was started on the Dim** Savings and Hank
ing Company, In which leadinpr members of the
syndicate are interested. Tho bankers, business
men and the public generally are showing splen
did faith in the safety of the syndicate's affairs
and the soundness of the Dime bank. The ex
pected run on the bank occurred this morning,
but came to a sudden stop when the officers
handed out printed notices to the effect that the
bank had decided to take advantage of the rule
requiring sixty days' notice on the payment of
all savings accounts.
When the doors opened this morning a crowd
of three hundred depositors was waiting. They
gave formal notice that they desired to with
draw their accounts, and went away. In the
mean time In the commercial department promi
nent business men opened new and big accounts,
just to show their confidence in the institution,
and big real estate dealers offered to take de
positors' accounts and give dollar for dollar in
gilt edged real estate for them. Then, too,
money bepran to come in from all sections. By
the Adams Express Company $60,000 In g"ld
came from Chicago, !f'J4,(M»O in currency from
Pittsburs and :<:M,oo<l from the bank's Detroit
correspondents, also large sums from several
city banks.
Stephen Baker, president of the Bank of the
Manhattan Company, of New-York City, tele
graphed: "Can we loan you any money or help
in any way?" The bank replied that It had all
the money It needed. The bank holds f1.200,000
of city money, and Mayor Johnson declared he
was perfectly satisfied with the condition of the
Institution. All this had a marked effect, and
the crowd quickly melted away.
The bankers' committee In charge of the Ever
ett-Moore Syndicate's affairs began work early
to-. lay.
There are thirty-thre* corporations Included in
the interests of the syndicate. The committee
will ascertain which ours, if any, need an expert
accounting and then order the work done. B. W,
S.-lls, Junior member of the firm of Haskins *v-
Sells, of New-York, with an assistant, reached
Cleveland to-day, and will have char^<> of the
work.
The committee believes that it will require a
week or two to p>'t all th«> creditors here and si
cure their assent to the plan of procedure. Then
the ln%estißat ion of all the Interests will be
made, and when the results are known the com
mittee, with the members of tin 1 syndicate, will
decide 'ii Jusl bat course will be pursued
era!ly. and also what plan specifically for each
corporation. The general purpose Is to complete
all enterprises as nearly along the original lines
as can be done, getting the new enterprises on
th> :r: r feet as quickly as possible, nnd thus im
provlng the general condition of the syndicate's
Interests.
All the affairs of the syndicate nnd its projects
nr" Bald to be financed except the Lake
Bhore Electric Railway system.
Tb« pm'iarra^mcnt of th-» Everett-Moor* Syndi
cate had no apparent Influence upon the local stock
market yesterday. The news from Cleveland did
not cause much surprise here, as It had been gen
erally understood that the syndicate was con
ducting It 3 extensive operations upon a rather In
adequate margin of capital. It is said that th«
syndicate owes about J2.0(X).(«O to bankers and finan
cial Institutions In this city. The statement was
repeated yesterday that the syndicate's difficulties
could have been averted If it had been willing to
admit Influential New-York financiers to participa
tion In Its operations and its profits. Negotia
tions in this city a few weeks ago. which had for
their object the loaning of several million dollars to
the syndicate by local financiers, fell through be
cause, it Is said, the Cleveland men could not bring
themselves to deal on a "syndicate basis," and
would offer no more liberal terms for a loan of
millions than they would have been willing to
make for a loan of 160,000 to $100,000. A* far as ran
be learned, none of the Cleveland banks, which
hold most of the. syndicate loans, are borrowers
from their correspondents here.
STEAMSHIP BUSINESS OF A YEAR.
PARIS EXPOSITION CAT'KTK THE DIFFERENCE} PFI
TWWBS 1000 AND 1001.
William C. Moore, the landing agent of the- Im
migration Bureau, yesterday made public his an
nual table of the number of people brought Into
this port from foreign ports by the different steam-
Bhip lines. The totals show that 128,143 cabin and
4 ■ SGI steerage passengers were brought in last
year, as compared with 137.8."2 and 4->:;. s:-i in 1900.
With the exception of MOO, It exceeds any previous
year's arrivals. The passengers were not carried
as economically last year ai the year before, leav
ing the freight business out of the calculation, for
the number of trips laat year was 887, as compared
with S3S In lliuO, when ore than 9.000 more passen
gers were brought in. As In 1800, Mve companies
old the bulk of the passenger carrying business
and again the North German I,loyd and Hamburg-
American lines bead the list. The figures for these
two lines are: North German I,!nyd. 20,403 cabin
and 76,804 steerage, and Hamburg-American 20 624
cabin and 63,223 steerage.
These lines also carried in their Mediterranean
service 2,557 and 24,. and -).",:; and 15,337 persons re
spectively. The cabin passenger business of these
lines is very evenly divided, as Is further shown
by the fact that In 1900 the North German Lloyd
Lino brought from Bremen 23,350 of this class and
the Hamburg Line brought from Hamburg 23 279
The Whits Star Line is the only one of what
may be termed the "big five" that shows a marked
Increase In business, according to 'Mr. Morris's fig
ures.
In 1900 this lino brought 14,9-18 cabin and 29 370
steerage passengers. This year the figures were
respectively 18.167 and 30,483. The addition or th
big steamers Celtic and Oceanic is believed to have
been one of the reasons for this marked Increase
The Cunard Line, last year brought 17.T53 cabin and
1'J.943 steerage passengers, as compared with 20 000
and 22,751 In 1900. The American Line's business
last year was 12.110 cabin and 12,511 steerage pas
sengers, as compared with 16.435 and 16.844 in 19u0
The difference in the total business of the years
lf*)l and 19dO is probably an indication of the effect
of the Paris Exhibition on the steamship business.
Yon want to know who hold* the record In
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for -.". cent* per copy.
DUDLEY EVAXS RETAINS OLD POSITION.
11l WILL NOT ACT AS PRESIDENT OF WBULB,
FARGO & CO. UNTIL AFTER DIRECTORS MEET.
San Francisco. Jan. — Dudley Evans, who has
just been elected acting president of Wells. Fargo
& Co.. will retain his present position of second
vice-president, at least until the next annual meet
ing of the directors, when ho may be made per
manent president of the corporation. He says that
the principal office of the company will not ho
moved to New-York, and hereafter he will consider
San Francisco as his home. 1). H. Harrlman, the
newly elected director, will, with H. K. Huntington.
who is also on the board, represent the Interests
of the Southern Pacific, which owns one-fifth of
the express company's capital stock.
m
DRIVING OUT CONSUMPTIVES.
StTLLIVAN COUNT* SAYS TirET SlT'fTr GO ELSE
WHERE.
Goshen, X. V., Jan. 3 (Special).— County
has determined to get rid of consumptives. Lib
erty, the county scat, which for several years Iras
been well filled all the year around, recently passed
an ordinance forbidding residents to board con
sumptives In hotels, boarding houses or sana
toriuma. Rockland has followed this example with
a sterner decree, which prohibits the reception of
any consumptive into a family unless an Immediate
relative, dependent on the family for support. No
consumptive guests will be allowed even for a
visit. In Liberty a few days ago twenty consump
tives were rounded up before a justice of the peace
and fined $5 each. Loomis Sanatorium outside the
village limits of Liberty, is not affected by these
regulations, except that Its patients are not al
lowed to stop In Liberty for even a short time.
»
PLANS FILED FOR A XEW SYNAGOGUE.
The Congregation Kehllath Jeshurun, which is
now worshipping at No. 178 East Seventy-nlnth-st.,
filed plans yesterday for a synagogue to stand on a
plot 71x93.3 feet, on the north side of Elghty-flfth
at.. 216 feet east of Park-aye. The estimated cost
Is tGO.OOO. G. F. Pelham. of No. 503 Fifth-aye,. Is
thet architect. •
DAXGFR TO SIXG SIXG IXMATES.
FEW WOULD ESCAPE ALIVE IF FIRE
CAME.
Albany, Jan. 3.— President Ldspenard Stewart of
the State Prison Commlsaton In a report made to
that body to-day urges the importance of a new
fireproof roof on the cell building of Sing Sing
Prison. The report cays:
It takes over an hour every morning: to unlock
the twelve hundred separate cells, and twenty-four
men are available for this work. During the night
time only four hall men are on duty, and should
a fire occur in the night. It would be a manifest
Impossibility even to release the prisoners from
their cells. That such a chance of burning its
wards alive la taken by the State is a dlsgTace to
civilization.
FINAL ARGCMEXT JAX VARY 11.
THEN FRANCHISE TAX CASES WILL BE
READY FOR REFEREE'S DECISION.
[BT telegraph to the tribune.]
Albany, Jan. 3.— The struggle over the franchise
tax law went on to-day before ex-Judsre Robert Earl,
of the Court of Appeals, the referee appointed by the
Supreme Court to take evidence and submit a re
port on the equity and legality of the action of
the State Tax Commissioners In valuing the fran
chises of the chief corporations of New-York. There
were present for the State, Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Coman and J. Newton Flero: and for the cor
porations, David R. Hill, general counsel; ex-Judge
Charles F. Brown and W. H. Page, representing
the .Metropolitan Traction Company. William F.
Sheehan and Charles A. Collln. the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company; Frank H. Platt. the Consolidated
Gas Company, and William N. Dvkman. represent
ing the Brooklyn Union Gas Company.
David B. Hill asked Judge Earl at the beginning
of the proceedings for a ruling that the cases must
be finally submitted to-day. Mr, Hill made this
point because It had been thought the final argu
ments on the cases before Judge Earl would be
made to-day. Mr. Hill's request was opposed by
Mr. Fiero, who contended that as he had not been
served with a copy of the briefs of the applicants
he should have the right to submit briefs within a
reasonable time after the argument. Judge Eart
reserved his decision, and after a conference of
counsel an agreement was reached as to submission
of briefs. Judse Earl then ordered that the final
oral summing up of the counsel In the cases both
for tli« ?t? ta te and the corporations should take
place on January 17.
GOVERNOR SAVES STATE MONEY.
HEARS CHARGES AGAINST ERIE COURT! SHERIFF
HIMPE^U".
Albany. Jan. S (Special).— Governor Odell saved
the State considerable money to-day by listening
personally. In company with Attorney General Da
vies, to evidence offered In relation to charges re
cently preferred against Sheriff Samuel Caldwell.
of Erie County, for his alleged failure to close the
Illinois Club, an alleged poolroom situated Just out
side the city lino of Buffalo.
It has been rather the habit of Governors to re
fer charges of a grave nature against public of
ficials to a commissioner for Investigation, and
what with the expenses of the commissioner and
of the lawyers for the State bills of large amount
were rolled up against the State. A few years ago
the State had to pay a large bill in consequi of
an Investigation by this method of the conduct of
another Sheriff of Kri.- County,
Quite recently another Investigation of an of
ficial is said to have cost the State several thou
sand dollars. This one of Sheriff Caidwell's I con
duct will probably not cost 40 cents. Moreover the
taking of evidence is finished. In three hours the
Governor learned all the facts necessary to form
.', Judgment upon the charges, and the lawyers,
both for the defence and the prosecution, frankly
admitted that they had nothing more to Bay.
FOR CHEAPER RECEIVERSHIPS.
BILLS TO B9 rnra»RXTrcr> TO CUT POTVX THEIR
EXPENSES.
Albany. Jan. 3 (Special).— Bills have been drawn
for submission to the legislature to carry out Gov
ernor "dells suggestion that tho laws in relation
to receive hips of banks and Insurance companies
be amended so as to render thrso legal proceedings
far less expensive.
Attorney General Da vies In his annual report to
the legislature points out the faults of the present
receivership laws and makes certain recommenda
tions for their amendment which will probably
m>et with the approval of the legislature. Mr.
Davles, In his report, says that the expenses of a
large number of the receiverships have been from
3) to 30 per cent of the receipts, some of them run
ning as high as SO or M i"-r cent. In five repre
sentative receiverships Mr Davias points out the
percentage of expense! to receipts at 11, 19. 32. 25
anil .">. In the case of one trust company the
evct'tpt* were J1.07y.31. ><>7: receiver's fees, S2S.7M 85;
attorney's fees, J51.453 IS; referee's fees. $5,571 TO;
salaries, $25.674 93; rent, $8.412 17. and other expenses,
12.392 3D; total expenses. $119.239 00.
TYOXKiyO FOR GOOD ROADS. ™"
Albany. Jan. 3 (Special).— One of the first steps
for road Improvement of the present year will be
taken next week, when a committee of boards of
supervisors will meet here at the Ton Eyck Hotel
to bold a conference on th« subiect. This com
mittee consists of two members from each one of
the eight Judicial districts of the State. It was
appointed by the members of the Good Roads Con
ference he i.. here las) year. William iMerrepont
White, of Onetoa County. Is the chairman of the
<•< mmittee and he has summoned Its members to
gether.
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NEW-JERSEY NEWS,
STATE TREASURER APPOIMED.
EX-MAYOR BRIGGS OF TRENTON ACCEPTS
GOVERNOR VOORHEESS OFFER.
Trenton, Jan. 3.— The office of State Treas
urer, made vacant by the death of O. B. Swain,
was tendered to-day to ex-Mayor FTank O.
Briggs of Trenton. He is interested in the John
A. R<iehiinß"s Bona Company.
Governor Voorhees in the afternoon received
from ex-Mayor Briggs his acceptance of the
appointment.
MRS. DALE NOT INDICTED.
jrsTirra .sends orand jt*RY back to consider
> GAMBLING CASES. Bl'T THEY APJOI RN
WITHOUT DOING SO.
The Hudson County grand Jury yesterday con
sidered the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe Dale,
charged with the murder of her daughter Bbmßm
at Buck's Hotel, in Hoboken. on November 10.
and reported to Justice Gilbert Collins that they
had decided not to Indict her. In the east of Mrs.
Vencedora Chartrand. charged with killing her
husband. John Chartrand. at th«v Hoboken Curling
Rink on October 31. the grand jury reported that
the evidence submitted to them warranted the
opinion that. Mrs. Chartrand is Insane. They ad
vised that steps he taken to have h* le^ illy de
clared Insane and committed to an asylum.
In looking over a number of indictments handed
nn hv the grand Jury. Justice Collina said he did
nor Bee that they had acted on certain gambling
cases to which he had called their attention. H
asked them to go back and consider the cases, and
said he would wait. He waited until T p. m.. and.
the jurors not being ready to report, then went
home The grand jury at 8 o'clock adjourned
until next Friday. The casts to which Justice Col
lins referred were those .-f Eugene Sullivan and
William J. Clossey. charged with maintaining gam
bling resort?. These had been ignored by three
previous grand juries.
WINS SFIT AGAINST RAILROAD.
Perth Amboy, Jan. 3— After being out all nleht
the jury in the case of Thomas Rfdhing against
the Central Railroad of New-Jersey this morning
ALL ICECORDS PASSED by the Results of the
First Day's Selling in this January -:- -:-
Sale of MUSLIN UNDERWEAR
There are various reasons for the success of this great movement in White Goods.
Let's first thank the weather-man for glorious Winter weather. Then recognize the
tremendous incentive of large economies. Next realize how New York women appre
ciate such broad variety of fine, new. beautiful Muslin Garments, made in delightfully
original styles, refined in character, neat and thorough in workmanship, hygienically
clean and healthful.
But above all is the desire for new things while they are freshest and best. The
eagerness for new ideas. The convenience of buying this portion of the wardrobe
before the worry of spring dressmaking begin?. And the laying on January part of
the expense which would otherwise fall heavily on the later months with larger respon
sibilities. This happy home-economy receives a larger following year after year. So
changed are shopping conditions, that now, instead of the White Sale compelling pur
chases on the mere argument of economy, the public demands the Sale as a matter of
universal desire and convenience.
Yet never, in the days of its most needed insistence, was the January Sale of White
so attractive, from the points of variety, beauty and economy as is this White Sale of
January, 1902.
EncUof-the-Season Clean-Up
Of Women's WKAPS
This radical operation affects our entire stock of Women's Jackets, Newmarkets,
Raincoats, and Three-quarter length Coats. It means that, no matter what sort of o»cr
garment is desired by a woman, she may choose from a wide variety, and pay an insig- :
nificantly little price for it today.
Every garment is perfect ; and all are of the high character, in style and workman
ship which we demand for garments in our regular stock. These are the new prices:
Women's Newmarkets— Three-quarter Length Coats—
At $13.50. were SIS to $21 At «* values $25 to S3Q
At Sls. were $22.50 to $28 , ; A .t 52 £ values $32 to $43.50
At $22.50. were 530 to $42 Women S ILaincoats —
Newmarkets and Three-quarter JuISsoRBiSwS%H
Length Coats— Of cloth and silk— Women's Jackets—
At 550. were $62 to 590 At $10 and $12. values $13.50 to $13
Second floor. Broadway. At $13. values $22.50 to 530
JOHN WANAMAKEK,
Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co., Broadway, Fourth Are., Ninth and Tenth Sts.
brought In a verdict against th« railroad 'or Miva
R«dhing. who is a Perth Amboy business nan.*,;
struck by an engine and severely hurt at Ro«*
several months ago. !tUs
BEIX GRAFTING SUCCESSFUL.^ V
Englewood. Jan. 3 (Special).— Of the fonriM^
pieces of flesh applied to Henry Blace's burned boty
on Sunday in the Englewood Hospital all were suc
cessfully grafted. The bandages were removed la*>
night by Dr. Currie. Fbrty-three pieces of cutlet
have been grafted on Blace's body and Dr. Cam,
believes the recovery of the patient Is assured, it
may, however, be necessary to add a few — ---
pieces of cuticle, for the burns covered an extpasiv*
area op Klace head, shoulder*, breast and if.
side. ' '■
DESERTERS CAUGHT AT ACE By I
Hackensack, Jan. 3 (Special).— Four straits* youa?
men made their appearance in th* 3u*qo*sjssssi
Railroad depot. Hackensack. a few nights age and
created a disturbance. They r-fis. I to go •» «. a
asked to do so by the agr-nt. and -r. arr v><
and committed to the local Jail. It wi. l^nrnn. to
day that the names given by trt«- hoys ta Sheru*
Soley were fictitious, for they arc Jam** Wilson.
James Cavanagh and Phil Ulbriek. of Company C
Fort Wadrworth. and XT. H. Holoster. el rnsssa
B. 13th Infantry, of Fort RHay. TtXM Th»y at
all deserters, and ■ guard will K« **nt from" Fort
Wadsworth to-morrow to get them from i* jail
Hoiostor was on a leave of absence, whi exalred
on Thursday. ***-**
COMES TO poor's AID.
Paterson. Jan. 3 (Special).— For nearly thr*»
months river three hundred el the Door in the city
of Paterson who have depended on the weekly al
lowance from the superintendent of outdoor relief
have been neglected because of a deadlock ia th»
Board of Aldermen preventing the transaction of
any city business.
Many a?r.i men and women gathered at th» City
Hall yesterday, as they have clone every week since
the deadlock began, but as usual they w*ra told
that no provision had been made for the payment
el the money, although there is an ample fan*
In the city treasury. Ex-Alderman Bovlan. seeing
their distress, volunteered to advance $2,000 to the
poormasUr. and the offer was accented. The money
will be paid to-day and distributed among the poor
The deadlock in the board was due originally to
the refusal of the Republican members to attend
the meetings because they held that partisan
schemes were to he put through. On New Year's
Day the new Board of Aldermen wajcli Is Repub-
Mean, attempted to organize, but thus far has failed
because (if a lively contest over the presidency.